Tireless Terrorists

IBD Editorials ^ | 30 June 2007 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

Homeland Security: The London bomb plot reminds us that terrorists never rest. Like gnats, they keep coming in the hopes we'll tire of swatting them. They have to get lucky just once. We have to be lucky all the time.

In Piccadilly Circus, only a stroke of good luck prevented an explosion that could have toppled a three-story nightclub and killed hundreds. Authorities had no inkling terrorists planned to blow up cars packed with petro bombs and nails. An ambulance crew tipped off police after noticing vapors building up inside one of them, a Mercedes parked outside a popular nightclub.

[Steely Tom]

They have to get lucky just once. We have to be lucky all the time.

Neither here nor there, but that line was used in an IRA communique transmitted after it failed to kill prime minister Margaret Thatcher with a long-time-delay bomb that was planted at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. The incident happened October 12, 1984.

Here is the original line (thanks Google and Wikipedia): Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.

[festus]

The headline made me think of terrorists who used car bombs in cars on cinderblocks.........